Garment-clasp



(No Model.) I

W. G. MoGEE.

, GARMENT CLASP. No. 601,814. Patented Apr. 5, 1898 WITNESSES: INVENTOl-T g %w/ wa /W I x X] TTOR/VEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM GLENN MGGEE, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

GARM ENT-CLAS P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,814, dated April 5, 1898.

Application filed June 4, 1897 $erla11l'o. 639,423. (No-model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM GLENN Mo- GEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Wilmington, county of New Castle, and State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Glasps, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forininga part thereof,in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to improvements in garment-clasps; and the object thereof is to provide an inexpensive and durable device of this character adapted for connecting two adjacent sections of a garment in such a manner as to preclude the possibility of accidental displacement or unfastenin g thereof, While at the same time the device may be readily and easily unclasped when desired.

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the an nexed claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of' a glove having my improved fastener attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View taken on the line mm, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a similar view, illustrating the device in position assumed in the act of unfastening.

In the practice of my invention I provide two sheet-metal casings A and A, these casings being preferably of a semicircular contour and adapted forattachn1ent,respectivel y, to the adjacent flaps or sections B and B of a garment. Connecting these two said casings when the device is'clasped is a rod 0,

having heads 0 and c formed upon its respective ends. The head 0 is preferably of circular contour, and it is of a thickness equal to the diameter of the rod 0; but this said head may be spherical, if desired. The head 0 is of an oval shape, whereby, in combination with the rod,an approximately T- shaped extension is provided, this said extension normally lying fiat against the garment, the

' rod being extended through an aperture a,

leading through the casing A.

The casing A is supplied with akey-shaped opening a, adapted for the emission of the oval head 0 of the rod 0, whereby when the garment is clasped, as illustrated in Fig. 1' of the drawings, the head cannot be removed from the casing by pressure of the body of the wearer.

The casings A and A are respectivelysupplied with projecting prongs a and in connecting the casings to the garment these prongs are pierced through the material thereof and then bent over upon disks D, thus securely fastening the casings to the garment.

In the operation of the device in order to clasp the garment the section B thereof, which carries the extended rod O,is bent outwardly until the T- shaped head thereof is at right angles with the vertical edge of the opposing section B. This will allow the head 0 to enter the aperture a of. the casing A, after which the section B of the garment is turned back to its normal position, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, whereby the clasp is securely locked against all accidental displacement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a garment-clasp, the combination of two oppositely-located semispherical casings and a rod having a flattened circular head thereon socketed within one of the said casings, the said rod having an oval head upon its free end which engages within the other casing, said casinghaving a key-shaped aperture leading therethrough, and means for fastening the said casings to the opposing flaps of the garment, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 28th day of May,

WILLIAM GLENN MCGEE. I

Q Witnessesr THOMAS TATNALL, CHARLES H. Scorr. 

